Although we have more data than ever before at our disposal, measuring poverty remains a controversial issue. This … paper discusses the ambiguity that arises from using different definitions and data sources in world poverty measurement. It … opens with a critical review of the different procedures to establish poverty lines and the various measures of poverty …

basic facts about growth, poverty and nutrition in India, it points to a number of puzzles, and it sketches a preliminary …

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper we build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show how repeated … cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty. We illustrate …

Poverty counts are counts of individuals in poverty but are calculated from household or family data on income or … across different people, and about the extent of economies of scale. The number of elderly in poverty, or the number of … children in poverty, is sensitive to these assumptions and to differences in living arrangements across age groups. We explore …

I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of PPP price indexes … reduced the global poverty line relative to the US dollar. The recent large increase of nearly half a billion globally poor … people came from an inappropriate updating of the global poverty line, not from the ICP revisions. Even so, PPP comparisons …